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Linko Overview

Throughout this course, we'll add logging and observability to "Linko," a simple URL-shortening service. Link shorteners are common on the web: they let users take a long, nasty-looking URL full of query parameters like:

https://www.boot.dev/courses/learn-logging?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=learn-logging-course

And host a short URL that simply redirects to the long URL:

https://linko.com/bootdev

Here's the catch: Linko has already been written for you. Your goal throughout this course will be to add observability to the service.

Assignment

Get Linko running locally.

Clone the Linko starter repo from GitHub onto your local machine.
```
git clone https://github.com/bootdotdev/linko-starter.git
```
Run the service locally.
```
cd linko-starter
go run .
```
Open http://localhost:8899 in your browser and make sure the Linko homepage loads.

There are a few strange bits of code in the Linko starter repo that you may be tempted to "fix." Don't! They're intentional bugs and oddities that we'll be using good observability to find and diagnose!

With Linko running, run and submit the CLI tests from the root of your cloned repo.